{{Pakistan has announced the release of seven Taliban prisoners in a bid to help the Afghan peace process.}}<\/p>\n
At least one former senior militant was among the men freed “in order to further facilitate the Afghan reconciliation process”, said a foreign ministry statement.<\/p>\n
Afghan President Hamid Karzai visited Islamabad recently to promote peace.<\/p>\n
Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif said at the time he wanted to help regional efforts to stabilise Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
The foreign ministry statement named those freed on Saturday as Mansoor Dadullah, Said Wali, Abdul Manan, Karim Agha, Sher Afzal, Gul Muhammad and Muhammad Zai.<\/p>\n
Mansoor Dadullah served as the Taliban’s military commander in four of the most violent provinces of southern Afghanistan until he was captured in February 2008 after a shootout with security forces in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.<\/p>\n
He had succeeded his brother, Mullah Dadullah, who was killed in a joint Afghan-Nato operation in May, 2007, but was sacked by the Taliban leadership later that year for for disobeying orders.<\/p>\n
Some 26 Taliban detainees have been freed during the past year, it added.<\/p>\n
Pakistan’s foreign ministry spokesman said these latest prisoners had been released in Pakistan, not delivered into the custody of the Afghans as Kabul would prefer.<\/p>\n
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